Charles Spearman, bearing in mind the influential theory that he originated of conceiving intelligence as made up of a "general factor" as well as "special factors" more specific to particular mental tasks, may have summed up the research the best when he wrote in 1927, "Every normal man, woman, and child is, then, a genius at something, as well as an idiot at something".
The philosopher Daniel Dennett, in a neat parry, has mocked such views as "cerebrocentrism", and lamented the fact that we find it difficult (and maybe humiliating) to conceive of intelligence as existing in any form other than our own brain-and-neurone variety.
It is at once bloated and efficient, executed with tremendous discipline and intelligence and conceived with not too much of either".
In Palestine, James was an intelligence officer, and conceived a fascination with the Arab world.
Scientists have spent decades arguing over whether intelligence is best conceived as a generalized ability or as the capacity to excel in particular areas of mental, social or emotional functioning.
Did a poorly conceived propaganda effort by British intelligence, whose practices had been known for years to senior American officials, manage to move, without significant challenge, through the top layers of the American intelligence community and into the most sacrosanct of Presidential briefings?
It is often said, when the modern industry is engaged in a bout of infighting, that we could do with a fourth: someone with a genius for organisation, the vision to conceive grand schemes, and the intelligence and determination to carry them out.
Regardless of whether or not Leibniz should be seen as the grandfather of artificial intelligence, he did conceive of human cognition in essentially computational terms.
The Open Data Institute, a UK-based incubator and promoter of open-data businesses that was first conceived by Tim Berners-Lee and artificial intelligence pioneer Nigel Shadbolt, is today announcing its first international investment.
More recently, business intelligence has been conceived as a set of methodologies, techniques and tools that were mainly utilized in order to compute analytics on top of business data and enable its representation under forms that enabled decision-makers to establish diagnostics and prediction related to their business [8].
The play itself is far more crafty than moving, but a sound, probing intelligence and a niftily conceived and well-paced plot make the narrative irresistible.
